Your favourite VOCAL-PHRASING lines (studio versions)

I always liked.....

Once upon a time, an old man told me a fable
When the piper is gone, and the soup is cold on your table
And when the black crow flies, to find a new destination....

That is the sign....

(Ogre Battle)

Kinda sets the scene perfectly.....:)

Well shes gone,
gone this morning,
see what a fool ive been
oh lord i said........

from " see what a fool ive been"
classic B.sided jewel to "seven seas of rhye"

Freddie was so more creative in the 70s!
In the 80s his song writing abilities got lazy
as the gay bars and hot spots took over his life.

[QUOTE] [b]gerry wrote:[/b]
Well shes gone,
gone this morning,
see what a fool ive been
oh lord i said........

from " see what a fool ive been"
classic B.sided jewel to "seven seas of rhye"
Freddie was so more creative in the 70s!
In the 80s his song writing abilities got lazy
as the gay bars and hot spots took over his life.[/QUOTE]
thought you called yourself a passionate uber-fan?
if you are then your Queen knowledge is sorely lacking...even the less knowledgable queen fans know that Freddie did NOT write "See What a Fool I've Been".....Brian did....well Brian almost did....he kinda reworked an old song.
But here's YOU the font of all queen fandom saying it's a Freddie song...hilarious !!!!!

FYI - "That's How I Feel", by Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee, was the inspiration for Dr May's song...

Brenski: i Never stated that freddie wrote "see what a fool ive been" i just commented that HIS song writing ability was much
better in the 70s than the 80s, so please stop making something out of nothing as per usual.

[QUOTE] [b]gerry wrote:[/b]

Brenski: i Never stated that freddie wrote "see what a fool ive been" i just commented that HIS song writing ability was much
better in the 70s than the 80s, so please stop making something out of nothing as per usual.[/QUOTE]
The confusion arose from you connecting two unrelated thoughts.

Let's review:

[QUOTE]from " see what a fool ive been"
classic B.sided jewel to "seven seas of rhye"
Freddie was so more creative in the 70s!
In the 80s his song writing abilities got lazy
as the gay bars and hot spots took over his life.[/QUOTE]
If you quote a few lines from a song and then speak about creativity and songwriting in the same thought, your connection of these two things carries the implication that the creativity and songwriting you're referring to are related to the song in question.

But you're saying these are two separate things. Cool. But I hope you realize that in terms of expressing oneself, this isn't much different from saying:

"I like cars. I drove a pink boat last week."

If you want be able to express yourself in a way others can understand, rules of logic and language have to apply when putting your ideas out there. Otherwise people will misinterpret you in some way and draw conclusions that you didn't intend. Feel free to call me a dick for saying all this, but myself, I'd be pretty happy if someone took time out of their day to help me with something I needed work on.

All that aside - I agree with you about Mercury in the 80s. But the the slump he hit (likely as a result of his change in lifestyle) wouldn't have existed without the things he wrote about in the 70s. Killer Queen and BoRhap were about himself and his sexuality, after all. It's a package deal. Sometimes artists can't handle the demons that make them great artists. Quite the catch 22. In Mercury's case - cue the 80s, and 1991. Sad, but true.

[QUOTE] [b]gerry wrote:[/b]Brenski: i Never stated that freddie wrote "see what a fool ive been" i just commented that HIS song writing ability was much
better in the 70s than the 80s, so please stop making something out of nothing as per usual.[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE] [b]gerry wrote:[/b]
from " see what a fool ive been"
classic B.sided jewel to "seven seas of rhye"
Freddie was so more creative in the 70s!
In the 80s his song writing abilities got lazy
as the gay bars and hot spots took over his life.[/QUOTE]

Gerry. I am not picking on you. just be honest now - if you read a five-line sentence with absolutely no punctuation, then you would also assume it's all directly connected.

ps - bit naughty of you to now go back and edit your original lost to make it look liked two separate sentences. Good job I already quoted you as you posted it originally.

pps - your comment about MOTBQ/BoRhap is a valid one - and has been discussed often before. It's without doubt Freddie's boRhap embryo

[QUOTE] [b]brENsKi wrote:[/b]

pps - your comment about MOTBQ/BoRhap is a valid one - and has been discussed often before. It's without doubt Freddie's boRhap embryo[/QUOTE]

Not really.

The embryo is, reportedly, 'Real Life', of which there are probably no surviving recordings. Then 'Liar' and 'Great King Rat' are further stages in his evolution as composer, then 'My Fairy King', then 'The March of the Black Queen' and then 'In the Lap of the Gods' before coming up with 'Bo Rhap'. So it's not the embryo per se, but one of the stages of the foetus.

sorry for confusing you all, i will of course make sure in future we do not get crossed wires again.
i was just quoting some favourite Queeny lyrics.

[QUOTE] [b]Sebastian wrote:[/b]

[QUOTE] [b]brENsKi wrote:[/b]

pps - your comment about MOTBQ/BoRhap is a valid one - and has been discussed often before. It's without doubt Freddie's boRhap embryo[/QUOTE]

Not really.

The embryo is, reportedly, 'Real Life', of which there are probably no surviving recordings. Then 'Liar' and 'Great King Rat' are further stages in his evolution as composer, then 'My Fairy King', then 'The March of the Black Queen' and then 'In the Lap of the Gods' before coming up with 'Bo Rhap'. So it's not the embryo per se, but one of the stages of the foetus.[/QUOTE]

the reason it''s referred to as a genuine embryo of BoRhap is the song structure.....there's so much about it that is similar -
>the track length,
>the individual song parts and their lengths,
>the change up/down in tempo
>the use of vocal orchestrations

in fact there's probably only one distinct difference - the ending. But this was done primarily to make the whole of side black segue

People often resemble more their grandparents than their parents.

What a great pity that "in the lap of the gods" (Revisited)
never ended up as a single release, as it may have charted higher
than "Now im here" which never got much attention in 1974!

grandparents do not create their own grandchildren.
and in any case, we're discussing the embryonic state of boRhap...not who created it

fact is the songs you refer to equate to various stages of sexual/reproductive development (if you'll forgive my continuing your theme)

Liar - a teenage fumble behind the bikesheds at school
Great King Rat - First blowjob
My Fairy King - First unprotected sex
The March of the Black Queen - conception/fertilization and pregnancy
In the Lap of the Gods - was the post-coital cigarette
Bo Rhap - the birth

[QUOTE] [b]gerry wrote:[/b]

What a great pity that "in the lap of the gods" (Revisited)
never ended up as a single release, as it may have charted higher
than "Now im here" which never got much attention in 1974![/QUOTE]
ITLOTG wouldn't have fit in the charts at that time...everything in '74 was quite catchy and accessible - the woah, woah la la las" of this were more akin to stadium audiences - and queen were still a way off this yet

NIH - didn't have too bad a chart placing for a second single from an album - some (UK) comparisons

NIH - 11
YMBF - 7
TYMD - 31
SYW - 34
DSMN - 9
Save Me - 11
Body Lang - 25
IWTBF - 3

i am sure "in the lap of the gods" (revisited) as catchy as it was would certainly have done better than the pathetic chart rating that "Mays" "Tie your mother down" got, even though it was a fantastic Queen classic.
How about other Queen tracks that never made singles how would they have faired? "Sweet Lady" "Death on two legs"
"Who needs you" "Dont try suicide" the mind boggles how the public would have reacted to these single releases!

At the time , mid 70's, I don't think Death On Two Legs would have had much, if any airplay. It was quite a dark song and pretty aggressive in content.

Who Needs You, would have fitted into the expected Queen sound of the time, being acoustic based. But then neither did Rock You. Which at the time was very different sounding. With such a strong song ax Champions WNY would at best have been the second single off the album!

To me Dont Try Suicide doesn't sound like a single, but . . . . .

I always thought that Sweet Lady was the weakest song on ANATO